Tim Lincecum

San Francisco Manager Bruce Bochy said right-hander Tim Lincecum has received cortisone injections in both hips to treat a degenerative condition that is not considered career-threatening. Lincecum, who has been on the DL since June 28 because of a bruised right forearm, had an MRI exam Monday. Etc. Pittsburgh shortstop Jordy Mercer is expected to miss six weeks because of a sprained left knee, leaving the Pirates without their starters on the left side of the infield possibly until September. Third baseman Josh Harrison went on the DL July 7 with a torn left thumb ligament. . . . Atlanta reinstated left-hander Andrew McKirahan from suspension and optioned right-hander Ryan Kelly to...

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San Francisco Manager Bruce Bochy said right-hander Tim Lincecum has received cortisone injections in both hips to treat a degenerative condition that is not considered career-threatening. Lincecum, who has been on the DL since June 28 because of a...

Right-hander Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants was hit in his pitching elbow by a line drive Saturday and left the game against Colorado at AT&T Park.
Lincecum was struck by DJ LeMahieu's liner in the second inning. The ball deflected to first...

KEY MOMENT: The Dodgers scored early and often against Giants starter Tim Lincecum. When Justin Turner lined an RBI single to raise the lead to 5-0 with one out in the second inning, Giants Manager Bruce Bochy pulled Lincecum and left the remaining 20...

And now for something truly different, the Dodgers beat the Giants on Sunday.
Not just won the game, but pounded on them, acted like they wanted to take a season’s worth of frustration out on them in one game.
The Dodgers scored early and often...

KEY MOMENT: The game was tied, 2-2, until the fifth inning, when Justin Maxwell blasted a two-run home run off Dodgers starter Carlos Frias. The Giants increased their lead to 6-2 in the following inning on another two-run homer off Frias, this one by...

What the Dodgers feared became a reality Wednesday, when they announced Hyun-Jin Ryu was scheduled to undergo a shoulder operation Thursday in Los Angeles.
Ryu has spent the first six-plus weeks of the season on the disabled list and is expected to...

Understand this, there are no such things as jinxes. No fates conspiring against your favorite team, no curses crippling efforts, no super-secret whammy slowing bats.
There is one team consistently outplaying the other, which is what keeps happening to...

San Francisco Giants 4, Dodgers 0
KEY MOMENT: The Giants blew open the game in the seventh inning, when they scored three runs to increase their lead to 4-0. The first run of the inning scored when Joe Panik singled off Dodgers starter Brett Anderson...

KEY MOMENT: The Dodgers drew consecutive walks against left-hander Javier Lopez to load the bases with two outs in the seventh inning. Giants Manager Bruce Bochy called on right-hander Sergio Romo to face Howie Kendrick, who hit a weak grounder to the...

Last week's ranking in parentheses, statistics are through Friday's games:
1. ST. LOUIS: The Cardinals responded to Adam Wainwright's injury by winning 10 of their next 13. (2)
2. DODGERS: Each Zack Greinke start is becoming must-watch. Of course,...

AT THE PLATE: The Angels mounted just one threat in the game, when Chris Iannetta snapped an 0-for-21 skid with a leadoff single in the sixth and Erick Aybar walked. But Mike Trout flied to center; Albert Pujols grounded out, with second baseman...

That Josh Hamilton was a terrible signing for the Angels is self-evident. Baseball is flush with cash, but paying $3.4 million for each home run nonetheless is a horrendous rate of return.
The true nature of the damage is reflected not in what Hamilton...

ROSTER MOVES: Yasiel Puig was healthy enough to hit in a batting cage but not healthy enough to play Sunday, prompting the Dodgers to place him on the disabled list for the first time in his career. Right-hander Joel Peralta was also placed on the DL with...

His hair short and his fastball in the mid-80s, Tim Lincecum doesn't look like Tim Lincecum and didn't pitch like Tim Lincecum at AT&T Park on Tuesday night.
It didn't matter.
The Dodgers couldn't do much against this 30-year-old version of the...

Maybe the Giants were just waiting for the Dodgers to arrive to tap into their World Series mojo.
The Giants, off to a 4-10 start after losing nine of their last 10, welcomed the Dodgers and their seven-game winning streak to AT&T Park and then tried...

Yasiel Puig will start in right field for the Dodgers on Tuesday when they open a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park.
Puig missed four of the last five games with a sore left hamstring.
In 30 career games against the...

Our parents taught as young children never to kick anyone when they’re down, unless it’s the San Francisco Giants.
Then, have at it. So forgive the gleefulness here, but seriously, how do you plummet so miserably in one off-season? It’s almost like their...

KEY MOMENT: The Rockies had the tying runs on base with one out in the sixth inning and their best hitter, Troy Tulowitzki, at bat. Dodgers starter Brandon McCarthy challenged Tulowitzki with fastballs — one clocked at 96 mph — and got him to ground...

These should be the big, bold, brash San Diego Padres.
They always could pitch. Now they can hit. Now they can win.
You do not import an entire outfield of sluggers — Matt Kemp, Wil Myers and Justin Upton — and talk gingerly of hoping to compete. The...

Ask Dodgers pitcher Brett Anderson to recite a list of his injuries over the last four years and it sounds as if he's reading from an anatomy textbook.
"Right foot, left finger," he begins. "Back, elbow."
There are few major body...